History Main / SewerGator

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* One of the first enemies (after child mooks and small robots) the new ''{{Comicbook/Ms Marvel|2014}}'' encountered were sewer gators both in [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever giant]] and [[WeaponizedAnimal armed]] with FrickingLaserBeams variety. Thanks to the local super villain.

-->'''Timmy:''' "It's violent and educational, but mostly violent! Yay, violence!"

-->'''Bart:''' "We flushed the gator down the toilet, but it got stuck halfway, and now we have to feed it."

* A ''ComicStrip/ShermansLagoon'' strip had Sherman and Megan lost in New York while on vacation. They get directions from an alligator in the sewer and comment that New York gets a bad rap since [[ComicallyMissingThePoint the alligator was very polite]]

* In the ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' adventure ''Send in the Clones'', in the "Sewerworld" segment, the {{PC}} Troubleshooters can encounter gatorbots living in the sewers.

* There was a giant gator in the sewer in ''Film/Sharknado2TheSecondOne'' but it was eaten by the shark.

* In the second of the ''Never Deal with a Dragon'' trilogy of TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}} novels the protagonist Sam learns that generations of childhood belief in the fact that alligators live in sewers after being flushed has caused them to become an urban magical totem as well as a nature one.

* In ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}'', Hunter in a BadassBoast says that she killed the biggest of the New York sewer gators.

The alligator-in-the-sewer thing is probably one of the [[UrbanLegend oldest urban]] legends New York has.

Alligators that have been flushed down the toilet [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin will end up living in the sewers down below the streets.]] Most of the time, these alligators can be an example of NeverSmileAtACrocodile.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' adventure ''Send in the Clones''. In the "Sewerworld" segment the {{PC}} Troubleshooters could encounter gatorbots living in the sewers, a ShoutOut to the UrbanLegend.
* Cubicle 7's ''TabletopGame/{{Victoriana}}'' supplement ''Faces in the Smoke Volume Two: Shadows and Steel''. One of the Adventure Hooks for the Fellowship of the Red Pharaoh is hunting for a giant crocodile that has escaped from a London zoo and is hiding in the sewers.
* A ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} Literature/{{Discworld}}'' scenario about mapping Ankh-Morpork's forgotten sewers includes "the Albino Aligators, who have arrived from a [[OutsideContextProblem different set of narrative assumptions]]".

* ''TabletopGame/TranshumanSpace'' the urban legend has developed into the Lurker Below, a huge alligator-like creature with [[CombatTentacles writhing tentacles]] along its back, supposedly created by experimental biotech being flushed into the sewers and altering whatever's already down there.

* A ''{{GURPS}} Literature/{{Discworld}}'' scenario about mapping Ankh-Morpork's forgotten sewers includes "the Albino Aligators, who have arrived from a [[OutsideContextProblem different set of narrative assumptions]]".

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': Killer Croc generally uses the sewers of Gotham as a hideout and means of stealth travel.

* The online BonusContent for season one of ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'' (no longer available) strongly implied that the "aligators" in the New York sewers are actually Weevils.

!!Examples

* Cubicle 7's ''Victoriana'' supplement ''Faces in the Smoke Volume Two: Shadows and Steel''. One of the Adventure Hooks for the Fellowship of the Red Pharaoh is hunting for a giant crocodile that has escaped from a London zoo and is hiding in the sewers.

Alligators that have been flushed down the toilet [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin will end up living in the sewers down below the streets.]] Most of the time, these alligators can be an example of NeverSmileAtACrocodile.

Expect the sewer that they inhabit to be an AbsurdlySpaciousSewer.

The alligator-in-the-sewer thing is probably one of the [[UrbanLegend oldest urban]] legends New York has.

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!!Examples:

* ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' adventure ''Send in the Clones''. In the "Sewerworld" segment the {{PC}} Troubleshooters could encounter gatorbots living in the sewers, a ShoutOut to the UrbanLegend.

!Examples:

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': A sewer gator appears trapped in the Simpsons toilet - an battling Grampa - in "Marge in Chains":

* In the ''{{Discworld}}'', ace salesman CMOT Dibbler briefly peddles a kind of Fung-Shui. He is so good at it that one buyer discovers the Alligator of Unhappiness ''literally'' comes up through a lavatory which has been celestially mis-aligned and bites the believer in the bum.

The alligator-in-the-sewer thing is probably one of the oldest urban legends New York has.

* [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Candace]] fights one in "Fireside Girls Jamboree".

* [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Candace]] fights one (and won!) in "Fireside Girls Jamboree".

* In the ''{{Discworld}}'', ace salesman CMOT Dibbler briefly peddles a kind of Fung-Shui. He is so good at it that one buyer discovers the Alligator of Unhappiness ''literally'' comes up through a lavatory which has been celestially mis-aligned and bites the beleiver in the bum.